About the book: 1957 / “Lord of the World” is a novel about the problems of telepathy, human power over the world and over himself. The hero of the novel, the brilliant bionic engineer Stirner, invents a device for transmitting thoughts over a distance, and not just transmission, but for zombification, hypnosis and suppression of will... Alexander Belyaev always remained an interesting and original writer precisely because he managed to combine the sharpness of an adventurous plot with anticipation future scientific discoveries and humanistic traditions of “high literature”».